•“The great tragedy of the world is that memory does not grow, and therefore forget to teachers ”

•“Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to.” 
― José Luís Peixoto

•“He who is not sure of his memory should refrain from lying”

•“Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you.” 
― Sorin Cerin

•“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.” 
― Samuel Johnson

•“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.” 
― Richard Kadrey

•“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
― Ingrid Bergman 

•“Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.” 
― Brian Ruckley

•“Oh how great is the world in the light of the lamps!And how small is in the eye of memories ”

•“We need falsifications to make the past inhabitable.” 
― Frans Kellendonk

•“Memory is the only paradise from which we can not be expelled. ”

•“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.” 
― Anne Rice

•“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”
― Aeschylus 

•“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.” 
― George Eliot

•“when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” 
― Jane Austen

•“Everything looks lovely when seen at a distance, and things take a unique prominence when viewed in the dark chamber of memory.”

•“When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable” 
― Martin Amis

•“The memory of joy is no longer joy, while the memory of pain is still pain.”

 

•“The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.” 
― Marcus Aurelius

•“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche 

•“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.” 
― Lewis Carroll

•“The shared memories are sometimes the most peacekeepers ”

•“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.” 
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

•“Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.”
― Denis Diderot 

•“Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory”
― Francis Bacon   

•“Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.” 
― Paul Auster

•“Absence yours has never been alone: your memory is the passport of my travels ”

•“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.” 
― Baltasar Gracián

•“I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.” 
― Rosie Thomas

•“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”
― Lewis Carroll 

•“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” 
― Kahlil Gibran

•“Memory is called the faculty of remembering what we would like to forget.”

•“Memory is a strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.” 
― Julio Cortázar

•“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero 

•“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.” 
― Friedrich Nietzsche

•“Sorry not yet mounted the memories, the need to inventory the past that grows with loneliness and boredom”

•“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” 
― Antonio Porchia

•“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
― Andre Gide   

•“Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.” 
― Stephenie Meyer

•“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
― David Herbert Lawrence   

•“How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.” 
― Gustave Flaubert

•“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” 
― Rita Mae Brown

•“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.” 
― Mark Twain

•“Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.”
― Georges Duhamel 

•“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” 
― Thomas Campbell

•“Memory is the only paradise from which we can not be expelled ”

•“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!” 
― Eliza Cook

•“Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.”
― Michel de Montaigne   

•“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.” 
― Ally Condie

•“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”
― Thomas Fuller 

•“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” 
― Edgar Allan Poe

•“You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.”
― Janet Jackson 

•“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” 
― Mark Twain